Nearly 80,000 foreign labourers pick the cherries, apples and wine that end up on Canadian tables. The system is set up to ...

Over half of the women surveyed reported overcrowding at employer-provided housing, with 62 per cent reporting too few ...

Temporary foreign workers come here on a closed work permit, which ties their employment, housing and status in Canada to a ...

Jamaican farm workers in Nova Scotia are bracing for a difficult time when they return to their home country still reeling from the devastating impact of Hurricane Melissa.

A legal migrant farm worker was fatally injured while working at a major sweet potato farm in Nash County, marking the second such death at the same farm in just over two years. Daniel de la Cruz, a ...

Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...

The nation’s 2.6 million-plus farm workers – an estimated 1 million of them foreign-born– are a natural target of Donald Trump’s ever-escalating mass deportation campaign. About 45% of the total ...